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On-premise vs colocation vs cloud vs hybrid: What’s best for your business?

The current demand for digital services leaves organisations grappling with the imperative of keeping pace and strategically managing the storage and accessibility of their data and applications. Herman Chan, President of Sunbird Software, a leader in second-generation DCIM for remote data centre management, outlines the trajectory of hosting solutions, ranging from traditional on-premise infrastructure to […]


On-premise vs colocation vs cloud vs hybrid: What’s best for your business?

The current demand for digital services leaves organisations grappling with the imperative of keeping pace and strategically managing the storage and accessibility of their data and applications. Herman Chan, President of Sunbird Software, a leader in second-generation DCIM for remote data centre management, outlines the trajectory of hosting solutions, ranging from traditional on-premise infrastructure to […]


Seagate’s breakthrough 30TB+ hard drives ramp volume, marking an inflection point in the storage industry

Hyperscale data centers lead adoption of the new Mozaic 3+ platform that delivers unprecedented areal density of 3TB+ per platter. Seagate Technology Holdings, a world leader in sustainable mass-data storage solutions, has announced a milestone that marks a new era in the storage industry. The company launched the Mozaic 3+ hard drive platform—which incorporates Seagate’s […]


Kyndryl announces factors impacting IT decision making in 2024

As customer zero, Kyndryl began its transformation journey in 2021, when it became an independent company with approximately 90,000 employees in 60 countries. In less than two years, the company transitioned away from more than 1,800 inherited applications spanning over 50 data centres to a few hundred hosted entirely in a cloud infrastructure. It also […]


How the global cyber landscape will evolve in 2024 according to Veritas

Unfortunately, the cyber threat landscape continues to intensify. The last half of 2023 saw increases in volume and sophistication of cyber-attacks. I foresee that novel attack pathways will develop; and I also predict that socially engineered intrusions will increase in number. The most significant threats are those that are linked to the location of the […]


Vertiv announces data centre infrastructure and energy trends for 2024 

Intense, urgent demand for artificial intelligence capabilities – and the duelling pressure to reduce energy consumption, costs and greenhouse gas emissions – loom large over the data centre industry heading into 2024. The proliferation of AI, as Vertiv predicted two years ago along with the infrastructure and sustainability challenges inherent in AI-capable computing can be […]


Is your business ready to recover from ransomware?

Getting hit by ransomware is almost inevitable for the modern enterprise, with 85% organisations experiencing at least one cyber-attack in 2022, and as cybercriminals increasingly target data backups, the road to recovery can be a long one, explains Rick Vanover at Veeam Software. Ransomware has dominated the security conversation in recent years. But despite this, […]


Transformation must be based on authentic user experiences

IT teams must shift their mindsets to journey-based services by using experience level agreements or XLAs, rather than relying on meeting IT service level agreements, explains Charbel Khneisser at Riverbed Technology. Experience-level agreements, XLAs, sometimes known as ELAs are a variation of service-level agreements, SLAs that focus on the end-user experience. Whether that end-user is […]


Channel chief: Alexandre Brousse at Dell Technologies

Customers are looking to be more agile, which has led them to run workloads across multiple environments, whether public clouds, co-location facilities, data centres or at the edge, leaving IT teams grappling with complexity says Alexandre Brousse at Dell Technologies. Describe your current job role and a summary of the business model of your organisation? […]


NHS Digital awards Node4 Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) certification for a sixth consecutive year 

Node4, a cloud-led Digital Transformation Managed Services Provider (MSP), announces that NHS Digital has renewed its Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) certification for a sixth consecutive year. As such, Node4’s network of UK-based data centres can continue to supply the country’s health and social care sector with HSCN and overlay services. This allows private […]


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